Fred Cole Clodfelter Sr.
(1910-1993)
Minnie Belle Biesecker
(1913-1965)
Mary Frances Clodfelter
(1939-2025)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Ned Arthur Beeker

Mary Frances Clodfelter 2

  • Born: 13 Jan 1939, Lexington, Davidson, NC 2
  • Marriage (1): Ned Arthur Beeker on 9 Jun 1963 in Lexington, Davidson, NC 1
  • Died: 18 Mar 2025, Lexington, Davidson, NC at age 86 2

   FamilySearch ID: P3XY-S1B.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: Winston-Salem Journal, 10 Jun 1963, Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. 1 Beeker, Clodfelter Vows Told
LEXINGTON - Miss Mary Frances Clodfelter became the bride of Ned Arthur Beeker, an attorney here, in the chapel of First Baptist Church yesterday afternoon. The Rev. David Hoke Coon Jr. officiated.
Mrs. Beeker is the daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Fred Cole Clodfelter of Lexington, Rt. 7.
A graduate of Linwood High School, she attended Draughon Business College in Winston-Salem and was graduated from Arnold's Business College. For the past four years she has been employed by the Industrial Bank of Lexington.
Mr. Beeker is with the law firm of Stoner and Wilson here. Previously, he was on the staff of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he belonged to Sigma Nut social fraternity. He later received his law degree from the university's school where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.

2. Obituary: Davidson Funeral Home on 18 Mar 2025 in Lexington, Davidson, NC. 2 3 MARY FRANCES CLODFELTER BEEKER died March 18, 2025 at The Hinkle Hospice House of Hospice of Davidson County NC. Final relief from years of unbearable pain and suffering.
MARY was born on January 13, 1939 in Lexington, NC, to Minnie Belle Biesecker and Fred Cole Clodfelter. After graduation from Linwood High School in 1957, she went to "Business School" followed up as an employee at old Industrial Bank of Lexington in The Insurance Department. She married Ned in June 1963. After son ("Steve") was born in 1965, she was proud to be a wife, mother & homemaker until "Steve" finished high school. She was a deputy in The Register of Deeds Office in the '80's. Mary was such a good cook which she learned from her mother, and with a few new dishes of her own.
Preceding her were parents, and brother Fred Jr. and sisters Ruby C. Bates ("RL"), and Louise C. Peacock ("Jim").
Survivors: son Stephen Edward Beeker (Cathy); husband Ned A. Beeker; Grandson Christian James Beeker; Other family members: brother Bobby Joe Clodfelter; sister Bettie C. Miller; and The Richard & Terri Bates Family; and The Robert & Lisa Bates Family; and The Craig & Kelly Peacock Family; and Sister-In-Law Peggie Beeker Pitts and Family; and Christian's Mother Jane M. Beeker.
On January 13, 1939 This World said "HELLO" to Mary, and 86 years later on March 18, 2025 Mary said "GOOD-BYE" to all.
As Per Mary's request, she was cremated and there will be no view and no funeral or graveside services.
Davidson Funeral Home of Lexington is handling The Cremation.


Mary married Ned Arthur Beeker, son of James Arthur Beeker and Onnie Gertrude Crowell, on 9 Jun 1963 in Lexington, Davidson, NC.1 (Ned Arthur Beeker was born in Feb 1932 in , Stanly, NC 4 and died after Mar 2025.)


Sources


1 Winston Salem Journal (Winston Salem, NC), 10 Jun 1963 page 9.

2 The Evening News (Harrisburg, PA), 4 Apr 1974, page 32.

3 Davidson Funeral Home (301 North Main Street, Lexington, North Carolina 27292. http://www.davidsonfuneralhome.net/), https://www.davidsonfuneralhome.net/obituary/mary-beeker.

4 FamilySearch.org, North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCQD-92Z Ned Arthur Becker, 1932 citing vol. 19, p. 53, Stanly, North Carolina, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.



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